Tag: fuel price hike

Bharat Bandh today: Many Opposition parties back Congress call; Trinamool, BJD, AAP stay away

The Congress wants petrol and diesel to be brought under the GST, seeks an immediate reduction in central excise duty and 'excessive VAT' in states

September 10, 2018

Fuel price hike: Petrol hits record high of Rs 80.50 in Delhi

The high cost of global crude oil and a weak rupee took the petrol price in Delhi to a record Rs 80.50 per litre on Sunday.

September 9, 2018

Punjab AAP to make fuel price hike an issue

Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) Punjab unit on Thursday said it will make the record fuel price hike an issue in its on-going ‘Punjab Jodo’ campaign. In a joint statement, party legislators Prof Baljinder Kaur and Meet Hayer said AAP will mobilise people in the Punjab Jodo rallies against the record price hike in diesel-petrol and …

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September 7, 2018

Fuel price hike: INLD accuses BJP of betraying people

Condemning the hike in the prices of petrol and diesel, the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) on Monday said the Bharatiya Janata Party is betraying the people of the country as the saffron party had sought votes in 2014 Lok Sabha polls by using the rising fuel prices. In a Press statement, leader of the …

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May 15, 2018

BJD protests fuel price hike in Odisha

The ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) on Saturday staged demonstrations at various petrol pumps across Odisha protesting against the hike in prices of petrol and diesel. Hundreds of activists of Biju Yuva Janata Dal (BYJD) and Biju Chhatra Janata Dal (BCJD), the youth and student wings of the ruling party, staged a peaceful demonstration at …

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April 7, 2018

Mamata slams Centre for fuel price hike

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday took a swipe at the Central government for not doing anything to control the surge in the price of petrol and diesel. “Diesel/petrol prices are rising and rising and rising. People are suffering. Kitchens are burning. Government is only talking,” she said on Twitter. Petrol prices on …

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April 2, 2018

Congress holds protest against fuel price hike

Congress activists on Tuesday held a protest outside the Churchgate railway station in south Mumbai against rising prices of petrol and diesel. Congress workers under city unit president Sanjay Nirupam demanded that petroleum products be brought under the ambit of the Goods and Services Tax (GST). Nirupam said while crude oil prices are on downhill …

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January 30, 2018

Oil cartel’s hand in high petrol prices

In the last few days, steep hike in the prices of petrol and diesel is creating doubts about the legitimacy of recently introduced pricing mechanism for these products. It is notable that prior to June 2010, prices of petrol, diesel, LPG, Kerosene etc. were all determined and controlled by governments. Under this administered price mechanism, …

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September 22, 2017

Fuel price hike ‘biggest scam’ in recent times

The AAP is going to launch a countrywide agitation against fuel price hike terming it the  “biggest scam” in recent times involving the BJP-led Central government, informed party’s Delhi unit convenor Gopal Rai on Tuesday. Addressing media persons in the national capital, Rai said that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) would hold an emergency meeting …

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September 20, 2017

Congress to protest fuel price hike

The Congress on Friday demanded the withdrawal of central excise duties and other taxes on petrol and diesel and said it will hold a demonstration at Jantar Mantar here on Wednesday to press for this demand. Congress spokesperson Ajay Maken said the party unit in Delhi will launch a campaign at petrol pumps across the …

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September 15, 2017

Congress calls Modi governmment ‘economic terrorist’

Using Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s own words to hit back at him for “continuous increase” in prices of petrol and diesel, the Congress on Wednesday called his government an “economic terrorist”. Stating that Modi government was ripping the common man apart, the party also demanded that the prices of diesel and petrol brought down to …

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September 13, 2017

LPG hiked by Rs.2, kerosene by 26 paise

State-run oil marketing firms (OMCs) on Monday hiked the prices of subsidised cooking gas (LPG) by about Rs.2 per cylinder and of kerosene by 26 paise per litre. The subsidised LPG price in Delhi was raised by Rs.1.87 per 14.2 kg cylinder to Rs.442.77. Prices vary by location as per applicable local taxes. Besides, the …

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May 1, 2017